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How Jararaca Venom Became the World’s First Rationally Designed Drug
A toxin that can collapse a prey animal’s blood pressure in seconds gave rise to captopril, the first medicine ever built from…
Latest Stories
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Piraputanga: The Fish That Drives Crystal Clear River Tourism
Silver scaled and red finned, the piraputanga anchors observation tourism in the transparent rivers of the Pantanal and works as a live…
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Brazil’s Blue Amazon: the ocean secrets science is only now uncovering
Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo and the Brazilian Navy report that Brazil’s marine territory can hold more life per square…
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The Amazon Tapir, the Slow Giant That Plants the Rainforest’s Tallest Trees
A single tapir can carry more than ten thousand seeds through the forest in one day of walking. It is the only…
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The Jabiru Stork Returns to the Skies of the Pantanal
South America’s giant stork is gaining ground again across the Pantanal floodplain and pockets of the Cerrado, and its active nests signal…
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Brazilian Arnica Opens a Clean Route to Silver Nanoparticles
Brazilian researchers replace toxic reagents with arnica extract to make silver nanoparticles for air filters and hospital products, with a patent already…
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Amazon Butterflies Are Reading the Forest’s Climate Future
Short life cycles and extreme heat sensitivity turn Amazon butterflies into an early warning system, revealing climate stress in the rainforest long…
Wildlife
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Piraputanga: The Fish That Drives Crystal Clear River Tourism
Silver scaled and red finned, the piraputanga anchors observation tourism in the transparent rivers of the Pantanal and works as a live…
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The Amazon Tapir, the Slow Giant That Plants the Rainforest’s Tallest Trees
A single tapir can carry more than ten thousand seeds through the forest in one day of walking. It is the only…
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The Jabiru Stork Returns to the Skies of the Pantanal
South America’s giant stork is gaining ground again across the Pantanal floodplain and pockets of the Cerrado, and its active nests signal…
Environment
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Wildfires Threaten Drinking Water Long After the Flames Die
A global UBC review reveals that wildfires can keep Canada’s drinking water contaminated for months or years, long after the flames have…
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Brazil’s Cerrado Hides Six Times More Carbon Than the Amazon
A New Phytologist study finds the Cerrado’s overlooked peatlands hold six times more carbon per hectare than the Amazon, a climate vault…
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What Happens to Your Life if the Amazon Stops Breathing
On the International Day of Forests, professor Leandro Juen (UFPA) explains why the loss of the Amazon rainforest threatens the water, climate,…
Flora
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The Giant Water Lily That Blooms Once a Year and Moves Amazon Tourism
A single flower can reach 40 centimetres across and open for only one or two nights a year. That fleeting cycle has…
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Andiroba: the varzea tree behind Amazonia’s natural repellent oil
The andiroba tree and the flooded varzea forest sustain an extractive economy that keeps the rainforest standing and yields a natural repellent…
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Copaiba Oil: The Amazon Bioeconomy That Keeps the Forest Standing
Copaiba oil is tapped without felling the tree and feeds a global chain of natural cosmetics, sustaining the income of thousands of…
Science
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How Jararaca Venom Became the World’s First Rationally Designed Drug
A toxin that can collapse a prey animal’s blood pressure in seconds gave rise to captopril, the first medicine ever built from…
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Brazil’s Blue Amazon: the ocean secrets science is only now uncovering
Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo and the Brazilian Navy report that Brazil’s marine territory can hold more life per square…
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Brazilian Arnica Opens a Clean Route to Silver Nanoparticles
Brazilian researchers replace toxic reagents with arnica extract to make silver nanoparticles for air filters and hospital products, with a patent already…